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  • Actually a decent read with some thought behind each statement.

    Im a border Zillenial so I get to see both sides of this.

    I recognize the older way of thinking, and I’m willing to go above and beyond because I personally love my job, but my younger cousins and siblings aren’t so lucky. But the article is right they don’t out up with any bullshit.

    Rude manager trying to power trip? They gone. Horrible inconsistent part time hours that won’t provide stability? They gone and aren’t willing to go through the system, work for years, only to get a promotion to AM and limit themselves that way. Boss putting new responsibility’s and expectations without performance acknowledgment or a raise? They gone, they didn’t sign up for that without being paid for it.

    They don’t want to waste their life strggling and hating employment.

    Life is worth living.






  • " Asked for comment about the new lawsuit, a Temu spokesperson said in a prepared statement that Shein’s “audacity is unbelievable.”

    “Shein, buried under its own mountain of IP lawsuits, has the nerve to fabricate accusations against others for the very misconduct they’re repeatedly sued for,” the spokesperson said. "

    Pot calling the kettle black? Shouldnt they both just keep their heads down and keep chipping away at Amazon? It just seems a bit preemptive on Sheins part. I feel like some sort of confrontation between the two is inevitable, but I guess I thought it would have happened when they were more neck and neck with Amazon.




  • Ill be the lone user of Anysoft in this thread. Its on F-Droid and the playstore. Open source. Came from gboard, but realized that during all of the states banning porn thing I don’t want google to know everything I type.

    Its customizable and a good replacement for gboard IMO. It was a slight learning curve to be slightly more precise with my typing. Gboard you can just randomly mash and google seems to know what you’re going for. I also found the autocorrect to be worse until I added enough of my own slang into the dictionary, but now its fantastic.




  • Anecdotally, my neighborhood seems to be 70% manicured “perfect” suburban lawns vs 30% natural yard. Our little neighborhood also has a LOT of thick wooded areas and tall grass. Guess which houses look and feel like they truly belong?

    Also, we have native plants and wildflowers in our yard (haven’t gone full clover yet) and the amount of bugs and cute little critters around are incredible. So much life all bustling about. The bees love it, we had 6 different bumbebees across our 2 echinacea plants at the same time! So friggen cool to see.







  • In the electrical design world, we NEED examples to point to to sway customers. To me, this is great for that reason alone. Even if they don’t go with hydro, giant successful renewable projects still push the perception of feasibility of the ancillary renewables.

    Energy Codes are becoming more stringent every 3 years. As our tech gets better, the next level of building code and energy consumption standards can be aggressively lower than the last iteration. Sometimes so aggressively that manufacturers legitimately don’t have proper solutions for them. (An example is about a decade ago, when LEDs were less reliable and efficient, IECC set an aggressive lumens per watt threshold that was, at the time, not feasible. Nowadays they blow past it in efficiency)

    But ya know what? It forces them to TRY. If there’s enough pushback because the new standards can’t be met, it at the very least opens the dialog.

    I guess I’m ranting a bit, but after getting a new perspective with my employment, I do earnestly believe the scientific professionals ARE trying to push for a more environmentally approach to new construction, but we need regulation to drive innovation. Otherwise innovation stalls, in my opinion. Im sure I’m philosophically incorrect on that point, but its what I’ve noticed from my experience talking to customers, equipment manufacturers, and engineering leads.